On the Air, In Print, In The Galleries

Chicago Public Radio

Eight Forty-Eight Program

EOn Monday October 24, 2005 Richard Mack will be one of the featured segments of Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight show with host Steve Edwards. It will air in the 10-11am segment. You can listen in to WBEZ at 91.5FM, or on the web at www.wbez.org and follow the link to LISTEN NOW. Richard will be discussing his book The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes and relating his experiences during the four years the book took to make, including his two years spent out on the trail photographing the book.

The Chicago Reader

The November 3, 2005 issue of The Chiago Reader will have an article about Richard Mack and his journey in producing the book The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscpaes. We will post a link on our website for those outside of the Chicago area. Look for it sometime after November 3rd! You can also see it on the Chicago Reader website at www.chicagoreader.com.

Morton Grove Library Baxter Gallery

The Morton Grove Library Baxter Gallery will have a show of the Limited Edition Fine Art Posters by Richard Mack during the month of November. The show will run from November 1-30, 2005 and can be viewed during regular library hours. On November 20th at 2 PM Richard will give his lecture on the American Landscape along the Lewis & Clark Trail and discuss his book. Books will be available afterwards. For more information contact the library or Quiet Light Publishing.

Newberry Library Exhibit Features Images by Richard Mack

The Newberry Library exhibit Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country in Chicago features landscape images from The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes by Richard Mack. This exquisite exhibit examines the Indian country which the Corps of Discovery passed through and the role the Native Americans played in the success of the expedition.

In conjunction with this exhibit, a series of lectures will take place. On November 5^th at 11:00 am Richard will lecture on The Lewis & Clark Trail and The American Landscape. His lecture will feature images from the book The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes and he will also discuss some of the changes along the route over the last 200 years and the places he found where you can still catch a glimpse of what it might have been like for Lewis & Clark and the Corps of Discovery in the early 1800’s. Also part of this program will be a film and lecture by Sally Thompson, University of Montana. Her film Native Homelands Along the Lewis and Clark Trail will be screened and discussed.

Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country — Sept. 28, 2005-Jan 14, 2006

Exhibit admission is free.

Calendar of Events

October 24, 2005, 10am   Radio program EightForty-Eight airs at 10am Central time. Listen in on the web at www.wbez.org or in Chicago at 91.5FM.

October 26, 2005, Noon   Richard will be the keynote speaker at the Blatchford Society Luncheon at The Newberry Library.

November 5, 2005, 11am-1pm  Lecture Series at The Newberry Library. As part of the lecture series supporting the exhibit Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country Richard Mack will speak at 11:00 am and show images from his book The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes. His images show the breadth of beauty seen across the American landscape from the Mississippi River to the Northwestern coastline. He will also talk about places which look the same and those which look different from when the Corps of Discovery passed through the area in the early 1800’s.

November 1-30, 2005   Exhibition at the Morton Grove Library, Morton Grove , Illinois. A selection of 20 of the Limited Edition Posters will be shown in the Baxter Room of the library.

November 20, 2005 Morton Grove Library. Richard will be giving his lecture The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes and discussing his book and the changes in the landscape over the past 200 years. A book signing will follow the lecture. The lecture begins at 2:00 p.m.

December 10, 2005, 11am-1pm A book signing event at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, in Wilmette, Illinois. Join us for one of the last times you'll be able to buy signed copies for the holidays! Richard will be signing books from 11am -1pm on Saturday.

February 23, 2006 As part of the Dixon Park District Lecture Series Richard will be giving his talk The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes and discussing his book and the changes in the landscape over the past 200 years. A book signing will precede the lecture at Books on First in Dixon , Illinois .